[00:24.94]Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
[00:30.26]Goin' someplace and there's nowhere to go back
[00:35.01]Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
[00:40.77]Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
[00:46.41]Shelter line stretchin' round the corner
[00:51.81]Welcome to the new world order
[00:56.71]Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest
[01:02.41]No home no job no peace no rest
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[01:08.39]The highway is alive tonight
[01:12.94]Nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[01:18.22]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[01:23.77]Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
[01:27.16]
[01:34.70]Takes a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
[01:39.81]Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
[01:45.13]He waits for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
[01:50.77]'neath a cardboard box in the underpass
[01:56.61]You've got a one-way ticket to the promised land
[02:00.95]You've got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
[02:07.54]Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
[02:12.66]Bathin' in the city aqueduct
[02:16.37]
[02:18.01]The highway is alive tonight
[02:23.59]But where it's headed everybody knows
[02:28.79]I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
[02:34.16]Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
[02:37.94]
[03:01.53]"Whenever there's a cop beatin' a guy
[03:06.33]Whenever a hungry newborn baby cries
[03:11.90]Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
[03:17.29]Just look for me and I'll be there
[03:22.50]Wherever there's somebody waitin' for a place to stand
[03:27.54]Or a decent job or a helpin' hand
[03:33.45]Wherever there's somebody strugglin' to be free
[03:39.07]Just look in their eyes and you'll see me"
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[03:44.64]The highway is alive tonight
[03:49.50]Nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[03:55.31]I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light
[04:00.66]Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad
[04:04.86]
[04:06.29]The highway is alive tonight
[04:10.81]Nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
[04:16.54]I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light
[04:22.04]With the ghost of old Tom Joad
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